Cortical Specialization for Faces and Objects During Tactile Object Recognition

Authors

Catherine L. Reed, Claremont McKenna CollegeFollow
Jefferson D. Grubb, University of Denver
Jody L. Tanabe, University of Colorado, Denver

Document Type

Poster

Department

Psychology (CMC)

Publication Date

6-2002

Abstract

Recently, fMRI and MEG studies have confirmed that a ventrolateral somatosensory pathway and occipitotemporal regions are involved in tactile object recognition (TOR) [3,4]. However, little is known about whether cortical specialization occurs within the TOR system. We investigated whether tactually explored faces activate different cortical regions than tactually explored objects.

Rights Information

© 2002 Elsevier Science

DOI

10.1016/S1053-8119(02)90015-7

Recommended Citation

Reed, C.L., Tanabe, J., & Grubb, J. (2002). Cortical specialization for faces and objects during tactile object recognition. NeuroImage, 16 (2) 22-24.